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Neroni Chastened; California Goes After Trans Fats

"What's next &#8212; butter, bacon, lard?" a California restaurant exec asks of a proposed trans-fat ban there. This is sounding very familiar ... [<a href=http://www.news10.net/display_story.aspx?storyid=23461>News10</a>]
Smith & Wollensky&#8217;s <i>Times</i> ad congratulates Danny Meyer on six stars; Meyer uses the word &#8220;hospitality&#8221; only once in thanking them. [<a href=http://snack.blogs.com/snack/>Snack</a>]
<a href="http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/Porchetta/index.html">Porchetta</a>&#8217;s Jason Neroni sounds a lot humbler in his Gothamist interview than he did while <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/food/2006/12/jason_neroni_breaks_his_silence.html">begging for a Beard nomination</a>. On his <a href="http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/wd50/index.html">wd-50</a> days: &#8220;People would come in, look at the menu, and say, &#8216;Can you do the old menu stuff that Wylie used to do for us?&#8217;&#8221; [<a href=http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2007/01/17/jason_neroni_ch.php >Gothamist</a>]

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Smith & Wollensky’s Times ad congratulates Danny Meyer on six stars; Meyer uses the word “hospitality” only once in thanking them. [Snack]

Porchetta’s Jason Neroni sounds a lot humbler in his Gothamist interview than he did while begging for a Beard nomination. On his wd-50 days: “People would come in, look at the menu, and say, ‘Can you do the old menu stuff that Wylie used to do for us?’” [Gothamist]

Among the differences between East and West Coast restaurants: “There are no French restaurants left in L.A.,” food scribe declares. Also, there aren't as many boozehounds out West. [NYS]

Spitzer’s Department of Agriculture and Markets: Foie gras is not an “adultered” food. [NYS]

Starbucks to stop using growth-hormone milk; price hike in the works. [NYP]